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The impact of socioeconomic factors on the healthcare costs of people living with HIV in Turkey

Authors :
Hülya Özkan Özdemir
Selma Tosun
Fatma Nur Karaman Kabadurmuş
Durmuş Özdemir
Source :
BMC Public Health, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2020)
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
BMC, 2020.

Abstract

Abstract Background This study addresses an important field within HIV research, the impact of socioeconomic factors on the healthcare costs of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV). We aimed to understand how different socioeconomic factors could create diverse healthcare costs for PLHIV in Turkey. Methods Data were collected between January 2017 and December 2017. HIV-positive people attending the clinic who had been referred to the national ART programme from January 1992 until December 2017 were surveyed. The questionnaire collected socioeconomic data. The cost data for the same patients was taken from the electronic database Probel Hospital Information Management System (PHIMS) for the same period. The PHIMS data include costs for medication (highly active antiretroviral therapy or HAART), laboratory, pathology, radiology, polyclinic, examination and consultation, hospitalisation, surgery and intervention, blood and blood products, supplies and other costs. Data were analysed using STATA 14.2 to estimate the generalised linear model (GLM). Results The findings of our GLM indicate that age, gender, marital and parental status, time since diagnosis, employment, wealth status, illicit drug use and CD4 cell count are the factors significantly related to the healthcare cost of patients. We found that compared with people who have AIDS (CD4 cells

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
14712458
Volume :
20
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
BMC Public Health
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.bc303be326d427f836570f1dcf1ea1d
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08469-z